Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
EDGAR ALLAN POEArt is to look at not to criticize.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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